WordPress 6.7 – first impressions…
This post about WordPress 6.7 is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. WordPress 6.7 – the latest version of WordPress launched in the UK on 12th November 2024 at about 10pm. Here are a few of the WordPress 6.7 Reviews I read:…
The vitamin C content of the Barbados Cherry – Iris Bayley
The vitamin C content of the Barbados cherry was researched by Iris Bayley (later: Iris Bannochie) in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her research on the Barbados cherry followed on from the work done by Conrado F Asenjo and Ana Rosa Freire de Guzmán, who in February 1946 published a paper in Science on their…
The Terracotta Warriors – Xi’an, China
This month we have a double bill. Yesterday we shared our trip to Angkor Wat. Today we share our trip to visit see the army of Terracotta Warriors which were discovered by farmers in Xi’an, China while digging a well back in 1974. Today the excavated fragments are being meticulously pieced back together by a…
The Temples of Angkor Wat – Cambodia
For Chinese New Year 2014 which was late January, we did something that had been on our family bucket list for a very, very, long time. We went to Cambodia to visit the Angkor Wat Temples. That trip was triggered by the fact that after being in Asia for nearly 20 years, my wife, Susan…
Two Barbados Tourist films one from the 1960s and one from the 1970s
A look back in time. We recently came across these two Barbados Tourist Board promotional films: Barbados West Indian Wonderland from the 1960s and Magic Isle from the 1970s. Enjoy the nostalgia of these two promotional films. The first film is a Barbados Tourist Board film from the 1960s, promotes Barbados as a tourist destination,…
Aircraft losses Pont-Saint-Martin during World War II – Remembering P/O George Inniss and the crew of Hampden AD750 from RAF 106 Squadron
In France the 8th May is la fête de la Victoire 1945, le jour de la libération. It is a national holiday when those that gave their lives fighting for the freedom of France are remembered. The date celebrates the announcement of the end of World War II by Gen. Charles de Gaulle on 8th…
Moving BajanThings to the Ollie block theme
This post about transitioning to the Ollie block theme is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. Update 20th August 2024 – based on our success in transitioning BajanThings to Ollie we have upgraded to Ollie Pro and we have cleaned…
Transitioning from a WordPress Classic theme to a WordPress Block Theme…
This post about making the transition from a WordPress classic theme to a WordPress block theme (aka FSE theme) is part of a series where we share our learnings on managing a hobby website. It’s intended for WordPress hobby website administrators. This is going to be a work-in-progress post trialling the move from a WordPress…
Tent Bay, St. Joseph, Barbados
As part of the 2024 new year update and spring clean we have updated the BajanThings homepage. The new BajanThings homepage features a hero image of a fishing boat at Tent Bay, St. Joseph. Going forward we aim to change the hero image on the homepage regularly – and will add a homepage hero images…
The Bush Teas of Barbados – Iris Bayley
Patricia Bayley Mull sent us this pre-publication copy of her mother’s work on The Barbados Bush Teas. This paper was published in 1949 see: “The Bush-Teas of Barbados” by Iris Bayley, The Journal of The Barbados Museum and Historical Society – Vol. XVI No. 3 (May 1949). Iris Bayley is also referred to as Iris…
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